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I'm not certain I see the point of this.  Now that we can store food and booze in rock pots, I never have food storage problems unless I just forget to make them.

My Giant Kakapo is better than your dragon.

Giant Kakapos are the best.  Giant keas are pretty cool too, though.

It's terribly entertaining to be a god in a sandbox environment, hence the popularity of the elder scrolls games (storming Ebonheart with your undead army using the conjure creature + soultrap bug is my favorite). There is no one right way to play a game.

Anyways, do powered pumps keep working if you abandon and visit in adventure mode?  Do exposed aquifer tiles dry up?  You could build a refilling cistern, with optional water purifier for ocean tiles.  Just give it access to an aquifer tile or refilling natural body of water, and it seems as though it should stay usable.  That and a few lead bins of booze, food, and masterwork and legendary weapons and armor would make for a very nice hideyhole.

Would setting it as a lair make it hazardous to sleep there?  Do beds stay built?

As was already discussed in this thread, not long ago, booze does not burn, it boils noninjuriously.

We do not currently get gay dwarves, and it's a significant source of flame wars in the suggestion forum

It's not the derailement, which isn't actually objectionable, but the tone, which is.

Get creative with your wealth generating!  Only make the highest possible value items.  Wait til you get a highly skilled craftsman before making anything, gold mastercraft only, bedizzened with gold studs and gemstones, only the finest booze and food, engrave every exposed surface, but smooth everything first to produce a legendary engraver.

Just as a random aside (and continued derailing), in academic religious studies 'cult' is synonymous with religion, and lacks any pejorative connotations  (for instance, a 'cult object' is just an object used in religious practice), while in the common it parlance doesn't really have a strict definition, aside from "religion I don't approve of", and is very rarely a helpful (or polite) word.


As for cannibalism symbolism in christianity, in the early years of the christian church the romans (and various other non christians) were deeply suspicious of christians and thought they were creepy, largely because of taking that symbolism a little too literally.  This, combined with certain bits of christian rhetoric about this world being loathsome and sinful, and the believer's true reward being in the hereafter, led at least one roman author who's name escapes me to go on a rant about how christians were an omnicidal  cannibalistic death cult, that must be exterminated for the good of everyone.  The romans were just a tad excitable...


As for pregnancy religions, most animistic or polytheistic religions have groups of worshipers that venerate pretty specific concepts, or the gods of those concepts, and a pregnancy based religion is rather typical of those sorts of religions.